Gérard Souzay, Orchestre de Chambre, Jean-François Paillard - Four French Cantatas: Campra, Rameau, Courbois, Boismortier (1994)
Artist: Gérard Souzay, Orchestre de Chambre, Jean-François Paillard
Title: Four French Cantatas: Campra, Rameau, Courbois, Boismortier
Year Of Release: 1994
Label: Erato
Genre: Classical, Vocal
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 54:14
Total Size: 274 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist: Title: Four French Cantatas: Campra, Rameau, Courbois, Boismortier
Year Of Release: 1994
Label: Erato
Genre: Classical, Vocal
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 54:14
Total Size: 274 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Don Quichotte - Philippe Courbois
1. Overture - Recitatif: "Don Quichotte..." - Air: "Loin des Yeux"
2. Recitatif: "Signalons Ces Mots" - Air: "Vous Qui Travaillez A Ma Gliore"
3. Recitatif: "Le Fameux Chevalier..." - Air: "Mordi, Faut-il Pour Ingrate"
L'automne - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
4. Air: "Où suis-je..."
5. Récitatif: "Mais profitant des beaux jours de l'automne..." - Air: "Coule dans nos veines..."
6. Récitatif: "Quel est donc de naissance..." - Air: "En vain la plus fière beauté..."
7. Air: "C'est en fait,par Bacchus..."
Les femmes - André Campra
8. Air: "Dans un désert inaccessible..." - Air: "Par les vents et par l'orage..."
9. Air: "Ah! qu'un cœur est malheureux..."
10. Air: "La Coquette nous trahit..."
11. Air: "Fils de la nuit..."
12. Air: "Je borne mes rêveries..."
13. Récitatif: "Que les Amants dans leurs chaînes..."
Thétis - Jean-Philippe Rameau
14. Ouverture-Récitatif: "Muse, dans vos divins concerts..." - Air: "Volez, tyrans..."
15. Récitatif: "Neptune en ce moment..." - Air: "Partez, volez, brillants éclairs..."
16. Récitatif: "Quel aveugle transport vous guide..." - Air: "Beauté qu'un sort heureux destine..."
Performers:
Orchestre de Chambre Jean-François Paillard;
Director: Jean-François Paillard
Baritone: Gérard Souzay
Violin: Huguette Fernandez
Flute: Maxence Larrieu
Oboe: Jaques Chambon
Celloi: Bernard Fonteny
Harpsichord: Anne-Mary Beckensteiner
Sound Engineer: Guy Laporte
Remastering: Martine Guers-Fernoux
Those habituated to ‘historical sensitivity’ in performance are likely to get the vapours from this remastered 1970 recording. All modern instruments replete with full-throated wobble, it’s a blast from the past, but nevertheless well worth the hearing for the superb imagination of the composers involved. Courbois’s Dom Quichotte is a real gem and there is much else to enjoy throughout this collection. Gérard Souzay sings with all the intelligence to be expected from a distinguished champion of the French Baroque repertoire. Occasionally he seems taxed lower down and the faster passagework is less fluent than we might expect today, but his characterisation and diction are superb.